Steamed Hams but it’s a Critically Acclaimed Feature Film
— from the creator of the Soviet animation Steamed Hams, German expressionist film Steamed Hams, and many more #Find My Parking Cops
— Riley Walz scraped SF parking ticket data to infer traffic police routes, with a leaderboard of total fines per day #TV Simulator Says
— a smoking television with beefy arms responds to all your questions with Simpsons clips #Greig Johnson makes a Hitchhiker’s Guide prop from junk
— plus a Babel fish, Vogon ship, original animations, and a short film to show it all off #A Clock, a fan-made recreation of Christian Marclay’s The Clock
— the copyright implications here are interesting, Marclay’s unique arrangement of thousands of clips can be copyrighted even if he never got permission to use them #Kitboga forced scammers to solve impossible captchas
— YouTube’s best scambaiter ran a game jam to design the most infuriating and hilarious captchas #HushCrasher’s taxonomy of videogame production scope
— instead of subjective terms like “indie” or “AAA,” they charted games based on their size on disk and individuals named in the credits #Tunnel Girl recaps three years of her underground tunnel project
— after the city stopped work for over a year, Kala finally got official permits in March and kept digging #Trucker built scale model of NYC over 21 years
— constructed alone in his basement, the 50′ x 30′ model grew to cover all five boroughs and their surroundings #Hosting a website on a disposable vape
— the vape server is overloaded right now from Hacker News traffic, check it out later via Hacker News #goodbye, computer.
— a little tune by April Clucks that’s “dedicated to the first machine i loved, before they were unloveable” #More Objects from Films
— Marcus Merritt’s ongoing series of ink drawings of lamps, phones, televisions, and other objects found in movies via @marcusjmerritt.com #Fill Harmonics
— Parker Higgins made a crossword puzzle-inspired drum machine for 10k Drum Machines #Interviewing the couple in the Will Smith AI crowd video: “The sign was real. The emotions were real too”
Two weeks ago, I wrote about how everyone got the viral Will Smith AI video wrong.
Most people believe that Will Smith’s team used AI to generate fake crowds and fake fans, presumably to cover for low turnouts, but the reality was much more mundane: they used AI to turn real photos into short video clips for a montage. The crowds were real, but everyone was convinced they were fake.
The focus of the internet’s suspicions was a couple holding a sign saying that a Will Smith song helped them to survive cancer, which Futurism called “nightmare fuel” with an expression “never before seen on a living human face.” Redditors called it “pathetic,” “vile,” and “sad and weird.”
After writing my post, I was left wondering what this uniquely-modern experience was like for these two people.
How did it feel to have millions of people think that you didn’t exist and were generated by AI? What was the story behind their sign, and what did that moment mean to them?
So I tracked them down to ask them.
